A star and a title of Armando Iannucci’s next film project have both emerged, according to World Of Reel.
Ever a busy bee, The Thick Of It creator Armando Iannucci, currently experiencing a late-career shift into playwriting, is apparently working on a new film.
According to World Of Reel, the film’s name is Growth, with Riz Ahmed attached to star. The synopsis apparently reads as follows:
“A tech drama following the founder of a Snapchat-like social media platform, who races to deal with the company’s exponential growth and devastating leak of users’ private content.”
Iannucci’s first foray into playwriting, Pandemonium, opened at the Soho Theatre in London on the 1st of December. Charting the last few years of calm and uneventful government in the UK, the satirist is also working on a stage adaptation of Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove for a West End debut in 2024.
His last two films, Death Of Stalin and David Copperfield, arrived in 2017 and 2019 respectively – in the meantime, he’s been keeping busy with a spot of political commentary and sci-fi series Avenue Five.
Riz Ahmed, meanwhile, recently starred in AppleTV+’s superbly melancholic rom-com Fingernails. Do check that one out if you can; it seems to have flown rather under the radar, and we really liked it.
A release date, further cast list or even an official announcement for Growth don’t seem to be on the cards yet – but with the quality of Iannucci’s previous directorial outings, we’re pretty excited for this one. More details when we have them.
